David Arnold committed to Northwestern in August after his gut instinct told him that NU was the place for him. But after visiting Evanston for the Michigan State game in October, he began to have second thoughts, so he reopened his recruiting process and took official visits to Indiana and Syracuse, and also got an offer from Vanderbilt.

What did the three-star safety from Copley (OH) learn in those two months of being back on the recruiting block? That his gut instinct was right in the first place.